BCC Brings Biometric Payment Card to Market
TAIPEI, TAIWAN and OSLO, NORWAY – 4 July 2023 – Beautiful Card Corporation (BCC), a prominent Taiwanese card manufacturer with global deliveries, has been granted approval from Mastercard to deploy biometric payment cards using Zwipe Pay.
Speaking on this development, Shellen Hsu, Global VP – Sales & Business Development, BCC, says, “We are extremely delighted to obtain approval that enables the deployment of our biometric cards globally. With the growing awareness of biometric payments in the APAC region and beyond, this is crucial as we are witnessing a strong interest in our core markets to launch biometric payment cards based on the Zwipe Pay platform.”
Issuers and consumers will have access to biometric payment cards built on Zwipe Pay technology operating seamlessly across Mastercard’s global network, addressing consumers’ demand for increased security and convenience through biometric authentication. Consumers will also benefit from more convenient, safe and secure ways to pay.
According to Patrice Meilland, Chief Strategy, Product and Marketing Officer, Zwipe, “This marks a significant step for BCC in the biometric payment market as issuers will have the opportunity to create differentiation, accelerate customer acquisition, uplift loyalty and create new revenue streams. With this progress, we look forward to further strengthen our long-standing partnership with BCC and we will continue to develop together our business and technical relationship in the upcoming years.”
About BCC
With 31 years of experience in the smart card industry, BCC is a leading smart card manufacturer globally. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, BCC is a Taiwanese-owned, GSMA SAS-certified, VISA, Mastercard and JCB-certified company with a global strength and local support. It is an eco-sustainable material provider that has compliance with RoHS, REACH, HF, CP65, ETSI, etc.
About Zwipe
Zwipe believes the inherent uniqueness of every person is the key to a safer future. We work with great passion across networks of international organizations, industries and cultures to make convenience safe & secure. We are pioneering next-generation biometric card technology for both payment and physical & logical access control and ID solutions. We promise our customers and partners deep insight and frictionless solutions, ensuring a seamless user experience with our innovative biometric products and services. Zwipe is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with a global presence.
Beautiful Card Corporation (BCC) 是台灣著名的卡片製造商，業務遍及全球，已獲萬事達卡批准使用 Zwipe Pay 部署生物識別支付卡。
BCC 銷售與全球業務發展部長 Shellen Hsu 在談到這一發展時說：
「我們非常高興獲得批准，能夠在全球部署我們的生物識別卡。 隨著亞太地區及其他地區對生物識別支付的認識不斷提高，這一點至關重要，因為我們見證了我們的核心市場對推出基於 Zwipe Pay 平台的生物識別支付卡的濃厚興趣。」
